LEARNING
Learning refers to a collection of different techniques, procedures, and outcomes that produce:
changes in an organism's behavior
Why was the first intelligence test developed?
to identify children who needed remedial education
Emotion and motivation are functionally connected in that people are __________ to act because of their________
Developmental psychology is the study of _______ and change across the ______.
continuity;life span
The ability to store and retrieve information over time is called:
A general process in which the presentation of a stimulus leads to an increased response to a later stimulus is termed:
SENSITIZATION
The psychologist most noted for his contributions to the Stanford–Binet intelligence test is:
Which brain structure plays the MOST critical role in the appraisal of emotions?
AMYGDALA
When does a zygote become an embryo?
WHen attaching to uterine wall
The process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory is called:
ENCODING
What was the conditioned response in the Little Albert study?
FEAR OF WHITE RAT
An inability to recognize objects that belong to a particular category, although the ability to recognize objects outside the category is undisturbed, is called:
category-specific deficit.
Which emotion is NOT thought to be universal?
SATISFACTION
According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage begins at _____ and ends at about age _____.
birth; 2 years
Storing information by converting it into mental pictures is known as _____ encoding.
_____ is MOST known for his work on conditioned taste aversion.
IVAN PAVLOV
If we assume that wealthy children all have nice homes with books, adequate nutrition, and time for play and exercise, we can also assume that the heritability of intelligence among wealthy children is _____ that among poor children.
Much higher than
Jennifer is feeling afraid. This emotion is _____ in terms of arousal and has a _____ valence.
high;negative
During which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development do children develop a preliminary understanding of the physical world?
preoperational
Iconic memory is a fast-decaying store of:
VISUAL MEMORY
Behavior that an organism produces and that has some impact on the environment is known as:
OPERANT BEHAVIOR
The debate between Louis Thurstone and Charles Spearman raged for many years until a technique called _____ revealed that each researcher's theory was partially correct.
confirmatory factor analysis
The James–Lange theory of emotion asserts that you will not experience _____ without first experiencing _____.
emotion; physiological activity
Most children ultimately come to understand that different people understand the world in different ways. Once they understand this concept, they are said to have acquired:
Theory of mind
Working memory includes subsystems that store and manipulate:
VISUAL IMAGES AND VERBAL INFORMATION